Bob wrote:No one knows what the sets of unadulterated, original Dong Haichuan
bagua teachings consisted of - some say he customized teachings to the strengths of the individual being taught.
Does all bagua training only consist of circle walking?
What if the linear forms, forms done along lines, can be collapsed into circle walking among 9 posts?
What if those lines follow the segmented lines of the 8 directions of the bagua diagram?
Bob wrote:No one knows what the sets of unadulterated, original Dong Haichuan
bagua teachings consisted of - some say he customized teachings to the strengths of the individual being taught.
Does all bagua training only consist of circle walking?
What if the linear forms, forms done along lines, can be collapsed into circle walking among 9 posts?
What if those lines follow the segmented lines of the 8 directions of the bagua diagram?
origami_itto wrote:Bob wrote:No one knows what the sets of unadulterated, original Dong Haichuan
bagua teachings consisted of - some say he customized teachings to the strengths of the individual being taught.
Does all bagua training only consist of circle walking?
What if the linear forms, forms done along lines, can be collapsed into circle walking among 9 posts?
What if those lines follow the segmented lines of the 8 directions of the bagua diagram?
Are you talking about the 9 palaces?
What I noticed about that is that if you take the pre-heaven and assign them numbers, left to right top to bottom, put 5 in the center, then move them to the post-heaven (which in Tai Chi documents at least is referred to as the 9 palaces) arrangement, the numbers form a magic square wherein the sum of each line horizontal, vertical and diagonal, add up to the same number.
So I learned a practice where you walk poles or circles in the sequence 1-9 where the numbers are arranged in that 9 palaces magic square sequence.
I hadn't considered the orientation of the trigrams toward the center in that arrangement...
Is that anything like what you're referring to?
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